But Dixville Notch wasn’t the only community that voted at midnight. New Hampshire allows towns with populations under 100 to ask permission to open their polls at their leisure and close the polls when all registered voters have cast a ballot. In fact, three towns voted: Dixville Notch, Hart’s Location, and Millsfield.

Clinton won more votes in Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location, but Trump was the overwhelming favorite in Millsfield, with a 16-4 advantage.

So the score is 32-25, Trump (56.1 to 43.9 percent).

If Fox News spun like CNN, their headline would read: “Trump takes commanding 12 point lead in N.H. first election day voting.” To their credit, they didn’t. And lest you think CNN simply filed the story before the other communities announced their totals, no–it was updated at 12:48 am, well after the results were published.

CNN buried the Hart’s Location and Millsfield results in paragraph eight. Nice. I know which network I’m not going to watch tonight.

Actually tonight, I won’t watch at all. I’m volunteering with DecisionDeskHQ. Follow their results, because they are better and faster than the AP.

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Steve Berman

The old Steve cared about money, prestige, and power. Then Christ found me. All at once things changed. But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

I spent 30 years in business. Now I write and edit. But mostly I love. I have a wife and 2 kids and a dog and we live in a little house in central Georgia.